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David Golonski, chairman of the LOSSAN board of directors, (left) and Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty on Monday sign an agreement transferring administrative control of the Pacific Surfliner service, Amtrak’s second most popular route in the nation.

LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency to take over management of popular Amtrak route from state

ORANGE – The Pacific Surfliner rail service, the nation’s second busiest Amtrak route, will transition to local control beginning on July 1, following the signing of an interagency transfer agreement with the state of California on Monday.

The Los Angeles – San Diego – San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor Agency, with management and staffing provided by the Orange County Transportation Authority, will take over day-to-day administrative duties for the Pacific Surfliner service that day, including management of the operating contract with Amtrak, which operates the service. Continue reading→

A California lawmaker, State Senator Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, was observed driving the wrong way down a one-way street in downtown Sacramento early Friday morning, leading to his arrest for driving under the influence, according to Fox News.

We now know that Hueso got wasted at a Latino Caucus dinner Thursday night at Il Fornaio. The Latino Caucus does not allow any Republicans to join – they are all Democrats and apparently they like to drink. And you can bet that the bill for this drunken debauchery was paid for by the taxpayers. Continue reading→

Have you wondered why Republican Carl DeMaio, a former openly gay Councilman, who ran against San Diego’s now ousted pervy Mayor, Bob Filner, did not go after Filner on charges that he harassed women, when they faced off last year?

A San Diego reporter, Rex Dalton, has posted an article at the Voice of OC accusing DeMaio of masturbating during public meetings, in a men’s room. The theory is that Filner’s camp knew about DeMaio’s proclivities and so DeMaio couldn’t go after Filner on the harassment charges as he too was compromised.

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner reportedly will resign as part of a deal to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit, according to USA Today.

Filner’s decision to resign comes after three days of closed-door mediation and after six weeks of scandal in the city. At least 18 women have publicly accused Filner of sexual harassment, including one former aide who filed the lawsuit according to the L.A. Times. Continue reading→

The East Coast media do such an amazingly superficial job of covering California politics that it’s no surprise they’re missing the boat on the Bob Filner scandal in San Diego. This is the same bunch that thought the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis was flakey,not an organic outburst of anger over a poorly run state. It’s the same bunch that bought the 2006-07 fantasy that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had discovered a “post-partisan” path to sublime governance. It’s the same bunch that buys the 2013 fantasy that Gov. Jerry Brown is a genius — never mind the high unemployment, the bad schools, the unaddressed budget nightmares, the prisons’ debacle, the bullet train fiasco, etc.

Three ex-supporters repeated their demand for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (a Democrat) to resign Monday and said he forcibly kissed two constituents and grabbed the buttocks and breast of a staff member, according to the Los Angeles Times, which also reported that:

Filner’s behavior toward women is so egregious that women who work for him call him a “dirty old man” and coined the phrases “the Filner headlock” and “the Filner dance” to describe how he isolates women and then makes unwanted advances, attorney Marco Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez said a sexual harassment claim will be filed with city officials. Also, lawsuits are a possibility, he said.